German filmmaker Percy Adlon had an unexpected success in America with his 1985 ”Sugarbaby,” the comic story of an unhappy, overweight Munich woman whose mad love for a handsome subway conductor ...

In Germany, the title ”Out of Rosenheim” is funny; it`s a wordplay on ”Out of Africa.” But few Americans get the joke, so German filmmaker Percy Adlon changed the title of his first American comedy to ...

In the late 1980s, Newberry Springs was the scene for a meeting of the minds, between Hollywood and a German film crew. They met to discuss the filming of a rather eccentric movie, the Bagdad Cafe.

We check in with our summer guidebook of strange pop culture landmarks, James Dean Died Here, by speaking with Andrea Pruett, the owner of the Bagdad Cafe in Southern California. She and her husband ...